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The Center for Connected Health is working to create a new model for healthcare delivery, by developing programs and innovative strategies to move care from the hospital or doctor's office into the day-to-day lives of patients. Leveraging information technology—cell phones, computers, networked devices and simples remote health monitoring tools—the Center is helping providers and patients manage chronic conditions, maintain health and wellness, and improve adherence, engagement and clinical outcomes.

1. 8-th Annual Symposium: "Driving Quality Up and Costs Down - New Technologies for an Era of Accountability" (October 20-21, 2011: Boston, MA)

8-th Annual Symposium
"Driving Quality Up and Costs Down - New Technologies for an Era of Accountability"

(Kindly consult the meeting's Web pages.)

Event sponsor: Center for Connected Health

October 20-21, 2011
Boston, MA

• Timothy Bickmore, PhD, Assistant Professor, College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University
• Janet Dillione, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Healthcare Division, Nuance
• Robert S. Galvin, MD, Chief Executive Officer, Equity Healthcare; Executive Director, Corporate Private Equity, The Blackstone Group; Member, Board of Directors, National Quality Forum; Adjunct Professor of Medicine and Health Policy, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
• Atul Gawande, MD, MPH, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School; Associate Professor, Harvard School of Public Health; Lead, Safe Surgery Saves Lives, World Health Organization [WHO]
• Brent C James, MD, MStat, Chief Quality Officer and Executive Director, Institute for Health Care Delivery Research, Intermountain Healthcare; Member, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Science; Faculty, Family Medicine and Biomedical Informatics , University of Utah School of Medicine; Faculty, Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health; Faculty, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Australia
• Joseph C Kvedar, MD, Director, Center for Connected Health, Partners HealthCare; Board member, Continua Health Alliance; Board member, Care Continuum Alliance; Chair, Scientific Advisory Board; Co-Founder, Healthrageous; Past President and Board member, American Telemedicine Association [ATA]
• Clifford Nass, PhD, Director, Revs; Thomas M Storke Professor, Stanford University
• Alex (Sandy) Pentland, Director, Human Dynamics Laboratory; Director, Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT]
• Rosalind W Picard, ScD, Founder and Director, Affective Computing Research Group, Media Lab; Co-Director, Things That Think consortium, Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT]; Leader, Autism & Communication Technology Initiative; Co-Founder, Affectiva, Inc
• Kate Pickett, PhD, Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Health Sciences, University of York, UK; Founder and non-executive director, The Equality Trust
• William Shrank, MD, MSHS, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Associate Physician, Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

Event Contact:

Margaret Spinale

617/643-3905

mmspinale@partners.org

(This material specially supplied by Julie Kvedar on 12 MAY 11.)

(Please, should you enquire about the above event, kindly extend credit to these Web pages.)